There was more than one surprise in store for Veronica Kuijken as she took a closer look at the chronology of the works Héléna and she have recorded here. For instance, the timeline she had spontaneously imagined for the years in which the works were written turned out not to correspond to the actual chronology at all, and the ages of the composers at the time they wrote them do not coincide with the youth or maturity they communicate. But these surprises actually make her rather happy, since they so beautifully illustrate the uniqueness of every person, quite apart from textbook music history! © Challenge Records